Hazardous Materials Packaging Specialist

Voyager Technologies, Inc. · Pueblo, CO

  • Junior
  • Full-time
  • $80,000 – $115,000
  • Posted 2026-09-23
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.

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You’ll help lay the foundation for humanity's future. Join a culture where innovation thrives, curiosity is rewarded, and impact is real. We’re a company of doers, thinkers and builders, united by purpose and grounded in reality.

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Voyager Energetics is seeking a Hazardous Materials Packaging Specialist to design, develop, and implement packaging solutions that protect energetic materials, propellants, and small solid rocket motors throughout storage, handling, and shipment. Reporting to the Materials & Production Planning Manager, this role owns the selection or physical design of every package we ship — selecting materials, designing cushioning and containment systems, qualifying configurations through testing, and ensuring that what leaves our facility arrives intact, safe, and compliant. The Hazardous Materials Packaging Specialist works at the intersection of engineering, operations, and logistics, partnering with production, quality, and the supply chain team to make sure protection is built into the packaging from the start — not added as an afterthought. Hazmat compliance with DOT, IATA, and DoD military packaging standards is an integral part of this role, supporting the design decisions that keep our products and our people safe.

In this role, the essential functions are:

Package Design & Development

• Design packaging systems for energetic articles, propellants, and small solid rocket motors from the ground up — including primary containment, interior cushioning and blocking, closure systems, and outer shipping containers — engineered to protect product integrity through the full distribution and storage life cycle.

• Select packaging materials — fiberboard, wood, steel, aluminum, foam, and composite constructions — based on product fragility, weight, dimensional requirements, chemical compatibility with energetic formulations, electrostatic properties, and expected environmental conditions during transit and storage.

• Use cushion curve data, fragility assessments, and drop height analysis to size and configure cushioning materials that absorb shock and vibration energy without transmitting damaging forces to the product; document the design rationale for each configuration.

• Engage with propulsion and mechanical engineers early in the product development process to understand product geometry, mass properties, and fragility before a design is finalized — translating those inputs into packaging requirements that are feasible, repeatable, and cost-effective to produce.

• Produce complete packaging design packages including appropriate engineering drawings, material specifications, Bills of Materials (BOM), assembly work instructions, and Packaging Data Sheets (PDS) that enable manufacturing and shipping personnel to consistently replicate every approved configuration.

Product Protection & Preservation

• Define required preservation methods for each packaged item — including desiccants, moisture barrier bags, vapor corrosion inhibitors (VCI), inert gas purging, and hermetic sealing — matched to the specific degradation risks of the energetic formulation, the expected storage duration, and the deployment environment.

• Coordinate with energetics chemists and materials engineers to evaluate compatibility between packaging materials and propellant or explosive formulations — identifying any risk of outgassing, chemical migration, or material interaction that could degrade product performance or reduce safety margin over shelf life.

• Investigate field returns, in-transit damage reports, and customer complaints related to packaging performance; perform root cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and redesign packaging configurations as needed to prevent recurrence.

Packaging Testing & Qualification

• As required, plan and execute qualification testing for new and revised packaging designs, such as UN performance tests (drop, stacking, vibration, leakproofness) per the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, ASTM D4169, MIL-STD-2073-1 and MIL-STD-810.

• As needed, evaluate packaging materials for electrostatic discharge (ESD) risk

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